Mistake #10: Experience

"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes." -Oscar Wilde

The above quote is true. It's not true because I told you. Or because a book tells you. Or even if Albert Einstein's dead corpse told it to you. It is true because it is repetition. And if something happens repeatedly then it's true right? Don't answer that question. It's rhetorical. Don't waste your time thinking about me asking you the question as I type this prolonged, probably mistake-filled sentence that you won't stop reading until there is a period which I probably will add eventually, wait for it, okay there it is.
       
That was completely unnecessary, except for everything that preceded that rant about rhetorical questions. The main point that I'm getting at for this post is how horrible of a mistake it is to have experience. Oscar Wilde said it himself. Our experience is a title given to our mistakes. No one wakes up and blurts out "Hell I'm gonna make some mistakes today, and I'm proud. World get ready!" Hell no is right. That's a scary mixture of Elle Wood's determination and Paris Hilton's lack of common sense. (BTW Paris you're welcome for the shout out). Why should we experience things? Why should we strap on our clean boots just to muddy them all up? Again rhetorical, only because I have the answer.

The answer is simple. Your clean boots get dirty just so you know how to get/keep them clean again. Just like everyone before you has done as well as the people that will come after you. It's the same thing with life you sad sap suckers. The only way you know how to most things is by how not to do them. Whether it's passed down advice or trial and error, mistakes fill our days. That's the whole purpose for this blasted blog. I'm done explaining myself, however. I don't owe anyone an explanation for my thoughts, I hand them out because they are free and valuable. Like your life. Enjoy it dammit!

With all of this jabbing about mistakes and experience, one(you) must determine when to leave something a mistake a mistake, or decide that the mistake deserves your attention, time, and effort. Leaving something as a mistake can make your days tiresome and frustrating. There's a reason for that. Reason being that you people are absurdly empathic. You care too much about too little. When you forget to get that oil change or study or respond to a friend, those are mistakes. You dwell too long on these and they cloud your mind, restricting air flow inadvertently causing you to die. Done life over. The formula to leave these as mistakes is simple. Do the opposite and your life will be more exciting. The opposite is described as apathy. Ah APATHY, you're capitalized because you are so important. Apathy is characterized by the absence of emotion. The less you care the less you hurt. Others around you may suffer, but you must realize the one's that are worth the hurt. Because they truly know you're capable of empathy given the appropriate situations. You'll learn this from a lot of my writing. Apathy isn't a crutch, it's a vice. It gets me through my days and helps me sleep at night. I wake up with it and share it with others. I'm very realistic in that I don't care about things that don't need to be cared about. Like people who cry over spilled coffee. It's just coffee you cretins. There's always more. It's on its way. Chill out. Take a few minutes. Read my other blog posts. Boom coffee is ready. You go on your merry way in hopes your day doesn't swallow you whole. God bless your heart you self-indulgent sycophants. Whew. Second rant done. Now lets continue...

As you can can tell sometimes too much apathy can lead to empathy in a roundabout way. Mistakes are mistakes. You learn from them or you don't. Issue done and over with. Now learning from mistakes, with all experiences considering, is a much more challenging task. You actually have to put forth effort...You know that thing that takes so much will power that you procrastinate the procrastination process of attempting effort. This is the make or break point. Because once you commit at all to learning you're either going to fail or pass. And truth be told I can't tell you how to learn from those mistakes. All I can say is learn the most helpful way that you can. If you fail, you fail. No worries. You try the opposite and see if it works, then a variation or something of that matter. All in all you gotta try something new. You don't want to be a repeat offender of the same mistake. However, it's more than acceptable to be a repeat trier. Which, in turn, becomes repeat success.

As you have been reading my rant I hope at least a few of the key points got across that short attention span of yours. They are as follows: Make mistakes. Live your experiences. Learn from the mistakes you made so they may pave a way for your new experiences. You're either going to learn the right way or wrong how to do something after you have made the mistake. So do yourself a favor a make a mistake.

As Oscar Wilde mentioned in the beginning of the bumbling cornucopia of profoundness, our mistakes are our experiences. We can't just dwell on the good to keep us going. We have to focus on what we're not in order to arrive at who we want to become.

Now I know this post may have veered off of the traditional path of my previous posts, but I'm not sorry. Life changes as do my words and moods. Get used to it. I'm just glad you made it this far in my series of self-realizations.

So to cap the blog off...dream dreams that are challenging, but approach those dreams in such a way that reality is only a heart beat away.

Be true. Be blue. Don't miss your cue.
Future Famous Writer Of Words is peaced out.